Tour Scotland Video Scottish Yarn Bombing Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Yarn Bombing outside the Old Ship Inn on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Local Scottish knitters went around the city to brighten up the city centre. Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. While yarn installations, called yarn bombs or yarnstorms, may last for years, they are considered non permanent, and, unlike other forms of graffiti, can be easily removed if necessary. Nonetheless, the practice is still technically illegal in some jurisdictions, though it is not often prosecuted vigorously. The practice is believed to have originated in the America with Texas knitters trying to find a creative way to use their leftover and unfinished knitting projects, but it has since spread worldwide.

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